1. For the last decade-and-a-half - the world has made a few - smart promises with the so-called Millennium Development Goals: halve the proportion of hunger and poverty - get all kids in school and dramatically reduce child mortality. 2. Most participants discussing the Sustainable Development Goals recognize that we need much - much fewer targets.(c)We have definitely seen a huge move towards success - although not all promises will be achieved. 4. What is somewhat surprising - however - is that we have fairly little information about what exactly we achieved. 5. According to data from the World Health Organization and the World Bank - in 1990 there were 560 maternal deaths out of 100 - 000 live births in India and this number went down to 190 last year.